What is "unreturned"

Usage examples of "unreturned".

Just before leaving work, packing up her desk, memos, notes, phone messages that had gone unreturned through the course of the afternoon fog, and with the beginnings of a headache probing her temples, she decided that if he wanted her to sleep with him, she would just do it.

News of the grim find spread rapidly throughout the rural community and sparked more than one frantic search for a missing child or a son unreturned from a family errand.

The stack of messages and bills and other mail, the unreturned phone calls all needed attention.

I exhaled loudly and squeezed my eyes shut, trying not to visualize the thirty-one unreturned phone calls as thirty-one crooked tombstones in snow.

Lastly, and most anxiously, there was the mounting mountain of unreturned phone calls and E-mail, the ribbon of numbers on my pager.

And who would rummage for the odd unreturned five-cent-deposit soda can in the middle of the night?

A man of principle, he had promised himself that he would leave no loose ends-no debts unpaid, no favors unreturned, no slights unapologized.

It ebbed even to its withered springs again: When my wan eyes in stern resolve I turned From that most strange delusion, which would fain Have waked the dream for which my spirit yearned With more than human love,--then left it unreturned.

By simple bookkeeping you could compute the unreturned green money and figure it as a deduction from the federal deficit, as though it had been a contribution to the government.